Ring planets

Discussion in 'Planets and Environments' started by godtier, Mar 8, 2016.

  1. godtier

    godtier Phantasmal Quasar

    I've been playing starbound for a long while, but only just now I've noticed something, there are no planets with rings, like saturn, I feel like this small detail would add more variety to planets, even if it's only visual.
     
  2. Tomas Swageroni

    Tomas Swageroni Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    eyyy sounds pretty good
     
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  3. Oberic

    Oberic Spaceman Spiff

    This never occurred to me. Wow, yeah we need this.
     
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  4. Centonux

    Centonux Space Hobo

    Maybe even make the rings something you can go too, seeing as rings are just a buncha rocks. Maybe a sort of an asteroid field?
     
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  5. BigBlueFish

    BigBlueFish Void-Bound Voyager

    :yoda: Add this you will
     
  6. Brockster17

    Brockster17 Phantasmal Quasar

    And mabye the asteroid biome for ringed planets would have sand- like blocks instead of asteroids and they would act like platforms. They could have different types of metal and junk blocks in them.
     
  7. Hoddmimir

    Hoddmimir Cosmic Narwhal

    Even just visual, this is a great idea. It would change the view while on the planet too, which would be awesome. I suppose planets with rings might be more likely to have meteor shower weather effects.
     
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  8. LilyV3

    LilyV3 Master Astronaut

    well, they could make the asteroid layer only appear on ringed planets.
     
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  9. RobedRebel

    RobedRebel Void-Bound Voyager

    Exactly I have been thinking the same thing! :)
     
  10. SnailsAttack

    SnailsAttack Void-Bound Voyager

    As long as it's visible from the surface. ;)
     
  11. Vyrvin

    Vyrvin Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    I don't like the ideas of people in the comments, don't take this as a insult.
    I have a better idea.

    The planet's rings will be visible from navigation ofc
    But i would just make the planet's rings as a background on the surface of planet.
    Just something simple.
     
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  12. ArmaniQ2512

    ArmaniQ2512 Space Hobo

    Yeah I agree Vyrvin, it would be better just as decoration for the navigation and background.
     
  13. scaper12123

    scaper12123 Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    Very good point! Considering rings are basically clusters of asteroids, it would be good if we could go over to the rings and mine them for resources as well.
     
  14. Grave Knight

    Grave Knight Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Dust. Rings are a cluster of dust. It would only have a visual affect. Though being able to explore asteroid belts would be cool.
     
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  15. soulsword3

    soulsword3 Void-Bound Voyager

    Exactly,why not?
     
  16. Doctor Stein

    Doctor Stein Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Oh yeah, this would be cool and not super hard to implement
     
  17. D.M.G.

    D.M.G. Master Astronaut

    Tho, keep in mind that, at a cosmic scale, those rings got reaally thin dimensions, being sommfink like 10 kms thick
     
  18. BatPetersAKAEnderzilla747

    BatPetersAKAEnderzilla747 Pangalactic Porcupine

    Now with the 1.3 update, we could have planet rings! When you close up on a planet, you will see the planet in the center, it's ring around it, and their moon (if it has any). The planet ring can act as an asteroid field, a large pile of debris, or even technological things like a swarm of satellites/spacestations/structures!
     
  19. 111sonic111

    111sonic111 Void-Bound Voyager

    I imagine it as more of a duplicate of the actual planet, possibly more like an asteroid field with biomes. imagine finding a village, one ore two houses on one asteroid, multiple asteroids interestingly connected together.
     

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